Four: Sister Edith M. Salisbury, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem

British War and Victory Medals (E. M. Salisbury. B.R.C.S. & St. J. J.); Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, First Class, 1 clasp, 1914-15, enamel chipped and reverse centre damaged; Queen Elizabeth medal, bronze, with red cross suspension, generally very fine and better (4) £300-£400

Edith Mary Salisbury was born on 19 June 1887 and lived at Cambray House, Llandovery, South Wales. A trained nurse, she served during the Great War as a Nursing Sister at Boulogne and with No. 2 A.B. at Calais. She later married bank official John Arthur Davies and is recorded in 1939 as a retired State Registered Nurse (S.R.N.) living in Wembley, London.

Sold with the recipient’s British Red Cross Order of St John brass pin badge and General Nursing Council for England and Wales badge, silver and enamel, by Thomas Fattorini, engraved to reverse ‘E. M. Davies. S.R.N. 25033 16.11.23.’